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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.

Time again for a quick look around some of the EHR and Health IT topics being discussed on Twitter. It’s an interesting time for healthcare IT on Twitter. They’ve started accepting nominations for what they’re calling the #HIT100. A number of people have already nominated my @techguy and my @ehrandhit Twitter accounts as a #HIT100 nomination. I’m honored that people would consider me in that group. I’ll be interested to see who ends up making it on the list. Those lists aren’t perfect, but I enjoy them for discovering new people I didn’t know about.

I love Inga from HIStalk and I love these first person perspectives and comments on EMR software. We need more doctors, practice managers, nurses, etc talking about their experience. Props to Inga for putting that together.

I love the concept of the “paper beast.” Such a perfect description and something that so many people forget about when their planning their EHR implementation. Dealing with the existing and future paper (yes, paperless is a myth) is an absolute must in a good EHR implementation.

@init2 Also, I’m worried about the “web form database schema enforcement” mentality of EMR GUIs – I’ve seen a doctor fight them and curse.

This is a topic we’ve discussed many times before. Although, I think we need to keep pointing it out so that physicians take a good hard look at the documentation method of EHR software. There are so many options out there that doctors shouldn’t settle for something less than optimal.

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